Alyssa Abney's Staging Area

Imagine training for months, being on track to finish within the course time limit and because the race started late, they force you on a bus and drive you for two miles because they are behind on opening the roads, even though you are maintaining your pace to finish on time. Myself and several others participating in the full marathon had out finish line victory stolen from us due to poor planning. We were all on track to finish within the time limit they promised to have the course open, but they were unwilling to allow us to complete the entire marathon and robbed us of two miles in the middle of the race. This was by far the worst race experience and poor planning I’ve ever seen, especially for a race as major as a marathon. This affected many runners yesterday. So many people had their marathon experience ruined by this. It would be one thing if I wasn’t on pace, but that was absolutely not the case for myself and those that were also robbed of their full experience they trained and worked so hard for. I will never be participating in this race again. It’s not worth it.